The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-20
RECEIVED FROM TIM STATE.
Total State Appropriations....................s8


State, to endow one or more Agricultural
and Mechanical Colleges, Land Scrip,
which was sold prior to 1876 for 1927 :
600. Only small per centum of the
principal of this can be used. The
State is required by the act of Congress
making the donation to guarantee per
cent. interest on the principal, to the
support of, at least, zone College where
the leading object shall be-without ex-
Guiding other scientific and classical
studies, and including military tactics
to teach such branches of learning as
are related to Agriculture and the Me-
chanic arts, in such manner as The Leg
islatures of the States may respectively
prescribe an order to promote the liberal
and practical education of the inc is
trial classes in the several pursuits and
professions in life" See U. S. Statutes
at Large, vol. II, p. SOB, ct seq.
1t was provided also in the act, that if
any State should fail to provide col
lege as described above, within limited
time, such State should be bound to re-
fund to the United States whatever had
been received under the act. Only 10
per cent. of the principal could be used,
and that only for the purchase of Glands
for sites or experimental farms" And
the use of the fund, either principal or
interest, either directly or indirectly,
under any pretence whatever, "to the
purchase, erection, preservation, or re-
pair of any building or buildings" was
expressly prohibited.
Under this law the State accepted the
grant, and divided the fund between
this College and the Alcorn Univer-
sity.
Under the permission granted to buy
land, the State allowed $4,000 of this
fund to be invested in land for the Col
lege. Up to this time the College has
received one-half the interest on the
fund, amounting to s4S, los. Add this
to the amount invested in land and we
have S63, Jos received from the United
States, and S329,611 received from the
State-making grand total of receipts
of 1892, 7l9.
We have to show for this, besides the
annual expenses, property, which, ac-
cording to the valuation of a disinter-
ested committee, is worth 5000, 401.
This property consists of about 1000
acres of land, and College building, dor
mitory, chemical laboratory, mess-hall,
hospital, ten dwellings for Professors
and employees, barns, stables, cow-sheds,
calf-sheds, creamery, silos, engine and
machinery, equipment of scientific de-
partment, furniture, apparatus, stock,
farming implements, machinery, etc.
We believe these are worth the valua-
ton above stated, if not more. The
herd of cattle now amounts to 376,
largely improved, and is growing in
value every day.
Subtract this from the amount receiv-
ed, viz: $392, 719, and we have $3.50, 318,
as the expenditure for each year.
From this should be deducted the sum
paid for repairs done by the cyclone, as
this was an extraordinary item, and, we
may reasonably hope, not to be repeated
in the future. This sum, as before
stated, is $9,611-leaviDg $l79,717, as
the ordinary expenditure for seven
years, or an average, annually, of $685.
673. This ordinary expenditure was,
in fact, greater, but the decrease
comes from real improvement in value
of the property purchased, the growth
of the herd, etc.
The buildings and equipments are
plain, but neat and substantial, and cost
as little as similar work anywhere. The
Presidents house is brick and cost
$4,000. The houses of the professors
and employees are wooden, having six
rooms each, and cost 81 500.
The real productive value OF the farm
has about doubled. This farm has not
received a cent from the college fund in
three years and annually clears profit
which has been invested in improve
ments and stock.
For the support of the College for the year
Of 1856 and 1857, the Legislature appropri-
For these two years the College share OF the
interest on the land script fund wss---.-- s,s5s
Total receipts for the two years s57
Masking, for each year, $29, 928-in
round numbers $4,000. During that
time the College had 6e1 students in at
tendance. Many were turned away in
1856 for want of room to lodge them,
and in 1S67as many were turned away
as were received, for the same reason.
1t is true that all these did not attend
all the time, but it must be noted that
If all had. the cost to the State would
not have materially increased, as the
corps of Professors and teachers paid
for by the State we're fully competent to
attend to Ill.
No other Institution ia the Gulf States
can show such an attendance. If the